When……………………….You Said Nothing
A friend sent this to me this morning. Author unknown.
When millions of illegals were ushered in through the southern border, you said nothing!
When they abandoned billions of dollars’ worth of military equipment in Afghanistan, you said nothing!
When they flaunted a two-tier justice system, one for them and one for everyone else, you said nothing!
When they covered up the Hunter Biden laptop, you said nothing!
When they passed a trillion-dollar infrastructure bill that failed miserably, you said nothing!
When they forced Americans to take an untested vaccine, you said nothing!
When inflation crushed the middle class, you said nothing!
When they sent billions to Ukraine, you said nothing!
When chemicals polluted the water in East Palestine, Ohio and they ignored it, you said nothing!
When Americans were raped, robbed and murdered by illegals, you said nothing!
When they implanted Kamala as the presidential nominee without getting a single vote, you said nothing!
When billionaire and anti-American George Soros funded dozens of AG elections, you said nothing!
When they turned our classrooms into liberal indoctrination camps, you said nothing!
When they spent our tax dollars on inmates’ transition surgeries, you said nothing!
When they gave the citizens of Hawaii $700 after losing their entire city, you said nothing!
When they gave free money, food and 5-star hotel lodging to illegals, you said nothing!
When they came for our free speech, you said nothing!
When DEI weakened the military and put our national security at risk, you said nothing!
When they colluded with the media to push false reports, you said nothing!
When it was open season on law enforcement and criminals reigned, you said nothing!
When they weaponized the justice system to take down their political opponents, you said nothing!
When the bureaucrats took over the White House and ran the government, you said nothing!
When they covered up Biden’s rapidly declining mental state, you said nothing!
When they groomed our kids in school and hid it from the parents, you said nothing!
When the drug epidemic exploded and 1000s died annually, you said nothing!
When they accosted the Jews on their campuses, you said nothing!
When they weaponized the intelligence agencies against Americans, you said nothing!
When they spent $45 million dollars on “Diversity and Inclusion” scholarships in Burma, you said nothing!
When they let men play women’s sports, you said nothing!
When they chanted “Death to America” and burned our flag, you said nothing!
When they shut down our energy production, and emboldened Russia, you said nothing!
When the crime rates in American cities increased, you said nothing!
While thousands of veterans were left to sleep out on the streets, you said nothing!
When 300,000 migrant children went missing and no one had a clue, you said nothing!
When Joe Biden pardoned his friends and family, you said nothing!
When they sent billions to Iran and inadvertently funded Hamas, you said nothing!
When men were celebrated for pretending to be women, you said nothing!
When they let a Chinese Spy Ballon sail across America, you said nothing!
When 50 intelligence agents all lied to bury the Hunter Biden laptop as Russian disinformation, you said nothing!
When American citizens were taken hostage and held for a year in Gaza, you said nothing!
When Facebook admitted, they conspired with the Biden administration to censor the truth, you said nothing!
When they cleaned the streets of San Francisco for the communist Chinese President Xi Jinping, you said nothing!
When Fauci and the WHO peddled covid 19 virus lies and covered up the origins, you said nothing!
When they sealed the January 6th commission files or “lost them”, you said nothing!
You saw the corruption, the lies, the bad policy, the anti American agenda and said nothing, so please spare us your crocodile tears
and all your fake hysteria now. For 4 years you watched this country get run into the ground on all fronts and you said nothing!
The Weekly Sam: Why the Federal Government Should Get Out of Education By Samuel L. Blumenfeld
The real issue is Limited Government versus Unlimited Government Most Americans want less government, smaller government and lower taxes. The only way to accomplish this is by abolishing federal departments and bureaucracies. As far back as the Reagan administration, Republicans promised to abolish the Department of Education. They couldn’t do it then because they lacked a majority in Congress. But whatever happened to the plan to abolish the Department of Education when Republicans became the majority? Not only did they forget their promise, but in September 1996 they passed the single largest increase in federal education funding: $3.5 billion. Who were the Republicans trying to impress? The National Education Association? The basic question is: Can good education be provided in the U.S. without the help or intrusion of the federal government? The answer is clearly yes. In fact, there is ample evidence indicating that the present decline in educational quality is a direct result of federal funding which has been used by the educators to fund more and more expensive educational malpractice.
A little historical background will help us understand why the federal role in education in America is more of an aberration than a natural development. There is no mention of education in the U.S. Constitution. However, in 1785 and 1787, while the United States were still under the Articles of Confederation, the Continental Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance Acts which provided for the orderly settlement of the Northwest Territory and encouraged the establishment of schools in the territory by stating: “Religion, morality and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall be encouraged.” The new states were required to set aside the 16th section of each township to be used for educational purposes.
But there was no requirement that the schools be government owned and operated. Seventy-five years later, in 1862, Congress passed and President Lincoln signed the Morrill Land Grant Act providing each loyal state with 30,000 acres of land for each Senator and Representative, the land to be used for agricultural and mechanical schools under a measure proposed by Senator Justin S. Morrill of Vermont. Five years later, in 1867, a federal Office of Education was established. Its purpose was:
“To collect such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of education in the several States and Territories, and to diffuse such information respecting the organization and management of schools and school systems, and methods of teaching as shall aid the People of the United States in the establishment and maintenance of efficient school systems, and otherwise promote the cause of education throughout the country.”
It should be noted that the National Education Association had been founded ten years earlier in 1857 and that its members called for the establishment of a federal department of education at the founding convention. And it is obvious that in that statement of purpose was an expansionist view of the government’s future role in education. After World War I, the NEA began a long range campaign to get federal aid for public education. From 1867 to 1940–a period of 73 years–the Congress passed about 11 minor pieces of legislation related to education. The fear of federal control of schools kept most legislators from voting for federal aid to public education. But resistance was gradually broken down by such acts as the National School Lunch Act of 1946, the School Milk Program Act of 1954. But it was the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 passed during the Johnson administration which opened the floodgates of the U.S. Treasury for the benefit of the education establishment.
From 1965 to 1983–18 years–there were 43 education acts passed by the Congress, including the establishment in 1979 of a U.S. Department of Education with cabinet status. In the year 1994 alone, there were about 180 educational restructuring bills before Congress! The three most important bills enacted were the Goals 2000 Act, the School-to-Work Opportunities Act, and the Improving America’s Schools Act, a reauthorization of the ESEA of 1965. All of this legislation was passed with much Republican help. In short, the Congress launched an avalanche of bills which virtually amounted to a cultural revolution. It seemed as if all restraints had been removed on government expansion and intrusion into education, and the Republican Congress did nothing to reverse the trend.
That is why the federal government has become a government of unlimited power. We must return to the principle of limited government if we wish to reduce the cost of government and its unwarranted intrusion in the education of our children. A limited federal government does only those things that cannot be done by the states or the private sector. The purpose of taxes is to pay for government, not change society. There is no doubt that the federal intrusion in education has harmed education and produced the dumbing down effect. Test scores attest to this bizarre phenomenon. Since 1962, SAT verbal scores have declined despite billions of federal dollars pumped into public education. In September 1993, the U.S. Department of Education revealed that some 90 million adult Americans have grossly inadequate reading and writing skills, despite compulsory school attendance.
The more federal money Congress pumps into education the worse it gets. Why? Because educational malpractice is very expensive, and without federal funding we’d have much less of it. The simple truth is that federal education programs cost the taxpayers billions of dollars, yet not one of these programs has actually improved education. Claims have been made that HeadStart is a successful program. But research indicates that whatever gains children make in HeadStart are lost by the third grade. Federal education grants subsidize a liberal academic elite with its secular humanist, socialist agenda, thus violating the Constitutional prohibition against establishing a state religion: Humanism.
The Data Collection System of the National Center for Education Statistics threatens family privacy and freedom. Children are not a “national resource” to be monitored and controlled for use by the state or industry. They are individuals whose lives belong to themselves, not to “the economy.” The federal government has institutionalized educational malpractice by supporting unsound educational theories and practices which have found their way into the public schools via the federally funded National Diffusion Network. Federal aid to public education simply reinforces a socialist, government owned and operated education system which distorts market values and encourages monopoly union practices.
Meanwhile, the education establishment continues to grow and prosper. In 1982, the average public school teacher’s salary was $19,274. In 1995 it was up to $37,643., and in 2008 it us up to $47,602. In 1982, per pupil expenditure was $2,726. In 1995-96 the national average was up to $6,213, and in 2009 it was up to $9,963. In 1984, total expenditure for public education was $134.5 billion. In 2002 it had risen to $420 billion. In short, never has public education been more generously supported by the taxpayer and never have our schools seen more violence, academic disarray, and parental dissatisfaction than the present.
What is even more shocking is that over four million students must be drugged daily with Ritalin in order to be able to attend class. Today, well-connected change agents like Mark Tucker are busy imposing on America the new Human Resources Development System, exuberantly described by Tucker in an 18-page letter to Hillary Clinton when her husband was elected President. Tucker described his system as “a seamless web of opportunities to develop one’s skills that literally extends from cradle to grave and is the same system for everyone–young and old, poor and rich, worker and full-time student.”
And so, in place of academic excellence, we have Outcome Based Education, Whole Language, Multiculturalism, Skinnerian Mastery Learning, National Teaching Standards and Certification, School-Based Clinics, Attitude Assessments, Global Citizenship, and Socialized Medicine for every student. What is actually taking place is a cultural revolution engineered by behavioral psychologists, humanist educators, and socialist change agents using a whole galaxy of education programs to implement their agenda, financed by the federal government. And much of this has taken place when Republicans were in control of Congress. And that accounts for the extreme frustration of conservatives who vote Republican but get liberal results.
When will this change? The takeover of the White House and the federal government by radical leftists has finally awakened the American people to what has happened to this country since we started allowing the federal government to exceed all limits placed on it by the Constitution. But in order to succeed in restoring the principles of government held by our founding fathers, we must return to limited government. This can only be done if the American people realize the potential for tyranny inherent in a government education system. The most important institution in a socialist state is a government owned and controlled school system wherein children can be indoctrinated to accept a socialist way of life. And the best way to prevent this from occurring is to return to the concept of educational freedom in which the federal government has no role in education.
Local public schools can easily become private institutions governed by local trustees and supported by tuition fees. This would greatly reduce the tax burden on home owners and provide more than enough resources to pay for the tuitions of poor families. The costs of education would decrease dramatically since education would once more become reality based wherein the fundamental academic subjects would be taught without the added costs of educational malpractice. Individual intelligence would be enhanced, while collectivist group-think would be discarded.
Can this be done? Only if America’s conservative leaders demand that it should be done. The home-school movement has already proven that parents can actually teach better than our high-priced professionals, that children progress better academically when taught at home, and that the cost of educating a child at home is less than $1,000 a year. If Americans want to once more experience what it means to be free, they must burst out of the high-priced straitjacket imposed on them by the socialist education tyrants. If they want better education at lower cost, then the prescription for success is simple: get the government out of education.
(The above timeless article is from the Sam Blumenfeld Archive http://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/main.htm
Announcing the Guest Speaker for Camp Constitution’s Ladies Spring Fling May 2-4 at the Alton Bay Christian Conference Center Alton, NH
We are pleased to announce that author Michelle Gallagher will be the speakers at our 5th annual Ladies “Spring Friday May 2 to Sunday May 4 at the Alton Bay Christian Conference Center https://altonbay.org/
Michelle Gallagher:
Michelle is an author, designer, and book publisher. Her first book, the “Forefathers Monument Guidebook,” uses a colorful tour of this iconic national monument in Plymouth, Massachusetts, to present the Pilgrim story in a fresh way to a modern generation. Released in 2021 to strong sales, the Forefathers Monument Guidebook has received glowing endorsements and is now in its third printing as a hardcover book. Her second project, “Monumental Prayers: 14 Days of Prayer Inspired by the Faith of the Pilgrims,” was released in May 2023 in partnership with Intercessors for America (IFA). Both projects were published through Proclamation House, Inc., an independent publishing company she co-founded with her husband in 2019 to create quality books and teaching materials that herald faith and freedom to the generations. (www.ProclamationHouse.org) In 2023, they published their first outside project for IFA entitled “Inspired Stories” to a national audience.
Our recent interview with Michelle:
In addition to Michelle, the weekend event includes arts and crafts. Classes on gardening, Bible studies, optional marksmanship training, and an evening campfire.
The cost for the weekend which includes two nights of lodging, five meals and materials will be $200. per person. For an application, please response to this E-,mail Payments can be made via our PayPal account accessed from our website’s homepage https://www.campconstitution.net or by check payable to Camp Constitution and mailed C/O Hal Shurtleff146 Powder Mill Rd. Alton, NH 03809. An application and a bring list is attached to this E-mail.
Gloucester Man Alex Destino puts left-wing clergy in their place
The following is a statement released by a group of “clergy” in the Gloucester, MA area-Cape Ann and an excellent rebuttal from Alex Destino-a life-time resident of the Gloucester:
MIDWEEK MUSINGS: By The Associated Clergy of Cape Ann
On Jan. 21, in the traditional prayer service at the Washington National Cathedral, the Episcopal bishop, the Rt. Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde, asked President Donald Trump to “have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now.” Many people were angered by her words, insisting that such language had no place within a service of worship.
The Associated Clergy of Cape Ann is writing to share our support for Bishop Budde and to thank her for her prophetic witness. Clergy of any religious tradition understand that our call to ministry is, when necessary, to speak truth to power.
Throughout human history, prophets have emerged during turbulent times to raise their voices and to speak their truth. When we think of prophets we most often think of the ancient voices in the Hebrew Bible: Amos, or Jeremiah, or Isaiah. Here is the Prophet Amos: “I hate, I despise your festivals … but let justice flow down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.” (Amos 5:21,24).
Of course, throughout Jesus’ public ministry he spoke prophetically to the crowds who gathered, words that are familiar to us today. We remember well Jesus’ response to the question of what commandment in the law is the greatest: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind … and a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’” (Matthew 22:37-39)
The words of warning and admonition spoken to the powerful often make people uncomfortable. No one wants to hear that they are missing the mark, acting out of covenant with God. It’s the role of prophets to tell us, and hope that we will have ears to hear.
Often a prophet is scorned. We see in the Gospel of Luke how Jesus was rejected for his preaching: an enraged crowd in Nazareth “got up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they might hurl him off the cliff.” (Luke 4:29-31)
We tend to celebrate prophets from earlier times, not those of the present. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the most prophetic voices of the 20th century, was often deeply unpopular among ordinary citizens and those in the corridors of government. He was only silenced by assassination, at the age of 39. Today, he is honored. Time has made his words feel safer to us.
Clergy learn of all these powerful examples as they take up their calling. But in fact, reading the words of others is just the beginning. We are also called to serve, and to act on behalf of the vulnerable and the oppressed, to do all we can to bend the arc of the universe toward justice. We take this call seriously.
And we ask that others join us in lifting their voices, in finding ways to serve, in showing mercy and compassion, and helping those in need. It is all of our work together: we are all needed, and we all have a role to play. There are many different ways to serve, many opportunities to offer mercy and care. We do not have to agree on everything in order to each put our shoulders to the wheel and to foster more kindness in an often harsh world. But prophets of any age would tell us that we are not ever let off the hook; that we are not allowed to do nothing. Regardless of our political and religious beliefs, the work to foster justice and mercy remains the same.
Perhaps an outspoken clergy member, or even attendance at religious observances has made you uncomfortable. Do you ask yourself why that is? Is it easier to blame the person uttering the words for your discomfort than it is to search your heart?
In the concluding paragraphs of her 2023 book, “How We Learn to be Brave,” Bishop Budde wrote, “As a person of faith, I dare to trust that God is at work amid the most challenging realities of our lives, and that by grace and acceptance, we join God in the holy work of transforming the world.” (p. 183)
It’s a tall order, to transform the world. No one can do it alone. Working together, we can accomplish a great deal. We hope you will join us.
Members of the Associated Clergy of Cape Ann,
The Rev. Janet Parsons, minister, Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church.
Rev. Valerie M. Roberts-Toler, interim pastor, St. Paul Lutheran Church, Gloucester
Rev. Printice M. Roberts-Toler, United Methodist pastor, (retired)
Rev. Susan Moran, minister, Unitarian Universalist Society of Rockport
Rev. Tess Baumberger, minister, First Universalist Church of Essex
The Rev. Alice W. Erickson, United Church of Christ,
The Rev. Judith Brain,
Rev. Sue Koehler-Arsenault, pastor, Annisquam Village Church
Rev. Rona Tyndall, pastor, West Gloucester Trinitarian Congregational Church, United Church of Christ
Elsa Marshall, C.M.C.E.Y.M.,
The Rev. Dr. Norma Brettell, pastor, Trinity Congregational Church, United Church of Christ
The Rev. Jim Achadinha, pastor, The Catholic Community of Gloucester & Rockport
Brother Patrick Garvey, Diocesan hermit, The Catholic Community of Gloucester & Rockport
The Rev. Derek van Gulden, First Congressional Church of Rockport, United Church of Christ
The Rev. Wendy Fitting, Unitarian Universalist minister (retired),
The Rev. Marya DeCarlen, St. John’s Episcopal Church, Gloucester.
The Rev. Sean Bendigo, senior pastor, First Church in Wenham
And Mr. Destino’s rebuttal:
My Response to The Associated Clergy of Cape Ann—Midweek Musings
The Associated Clergy of Cape Ann, entrusted with guiding their congregations in faith and doctrine, present themselves as biblical leaders. However, some of their recent statements raise concerns about their alignment with Scripture.
In their letter, they endorsed Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde’s call for “mercy” on transgender children and illegal immigrants at the National Prayer Service before President Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, and their families. While mercy and compassion are core Christian values, our faith leaders must also remain firmly rooted in biblical truth.
Bishop Budde—the first woman and openly lesbian individual to serve as Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington—represents a departure from God’s design for church leadership.
Scripture is clear on this matter: God has established distinct roles for men and women within the church (1 Timothy 2:12; 1 Corinthians 14:34-35). This is not about inequality—Scripture affirms that men and women are equally valued but called to serve in different capacities. When these distinctions are disregarded, the church risks following cultural trends rather than God’s Word.
The Bible is also unambiguous regarding sexual morality (Romans 1:26-27; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10). By fully embracing Bishop Budde’s leadership without acknowledging these teachings, the clergy of Cape Ann appear to be prioritizing societal pressures over Scripture.
At the same time, these clergy seem to be promoting gender ideology rather than biblical truth. While we are called to love and support all individuals, true compassion does not affirm confusion, but leads people toward clarity and truth. God created humanity male and female (Genesis 1:27), and our identity is divinely appointed before birth (Psalm 139:13-16; Jeremiah 1:5). Shouldn’t clergy, above all, uphold this truth?
Additionally, these clergy are actively protesting President Trump for enforcing immigration laws while remaining silent on the greatest crisis facing our nation: Under the Biden administration’s open-border policies, more than 365,000 children have gone missing—many tragically trafficked and exploited (Department of Homeland Security, 2024). Where is their outcry and compassion for these vulnerable children?
Beyond theology, there are financial concerns regarding the funding of faith-based organizations.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has revealed that faith-based NGOs—including the Episcopal Church and Catholic Charities—have received tens of millions in taxpayer dollars, in part, to fund LGBTQ+ and immigration programs.
This raises a serious question: Whose interests are these clergy truly serving? Are they answering to the government agencies that fund them or to their parishioners, who seek God’s unfiltered truth? Consider Matthew 6:24, Zechariah 11:13, and Matthew 26:14-16.
To the Associated Clergy of Cape Ann, I offer these questions with sincerity:
Where were you when Christians were arrested for praying on sidewalks and reciting the Rosary outside abortion clinics?
Where was your support and protests for Christian parents arrested at school board meetings for opposing gender policies?
Where were you when our religious freedoms were being infringed upon during COVID? You closed your churches while liquor stores and big-box retailers remained open. Did any of you stand up for religious freedom?
And why were you silent when the FBI spied on traditional Catholics while attending Mass, labeling them “potential domestic threats”?
To the faithful Christian and Catholic community of Cape Ann: Please join me in prayer for our region’s clergy. My hope is that they will return to their sacred duty of upholding God’s Word without compromise.
The church’s calling is not to conform to culture but to stand unwavering in God’s truth (Romans 12:2). Our community needs shepherds who will lead with wisdom, conviction and faithfulness to God’s Word.
Alex Destino
Gloucester
Black History Month: To Celebrate or Not to Celebrate?
Back in the mid-1980s while a mail handler working for the United States Postal Service at what was called the South Postal Annex, I had a conversation with a White liberal co-worker. I was trying to “Red Pill” him” by loaning him a book, Hijacked the Anthory Bryant Story. Mr. Bryant was a Black Panther turned born-again Christian and patriot. Bryant hijacked a plane to Cuba back in 1969. Thinking he would be given a hero’s welcome; he ended up spending twelve years in a Cuban hellhole prison.
My liberal co-worker never bothered to read the book because it didn’t fit his liberal narrative. “You need to travel around the country and then get back to me,” he exclaimed. I told him that while I wasn’t the most well-traveled man, “I have been in the Deep South, but it wouldn’t make any difference to you.” He accused me of not knowing much about Black history. I then began to ask him some questions:
Who was the first Black U.S. Senator?
Who was the Black man killed in the Boston Massacre?
Who invented the traffic light?
What was the name of the first all-Black unit in the Civil War? (1)
He didn’t know the answer to any of the questions and a few more I posed to him
‘For someone who knows so much about Blacks, you don’t know much about Blacks,” I replied.
A number of my Black co-workers were listening to the conversation. As my liberal co-worker was about to clock out, I asked him one more question “Why did you White liberals give Blacks the shortest month of the year to celebrate Black History Month?” This question ended our friendly relationship. My Black co-workers, on the other hand were high fiving each other, and congratulated me for putting this condescending White liberal in his place.
A Black postal co-worker, a friend, and I were discussing the issue. He was a conservative minded man but told me that Whites write history. I asked him if he could name the Black man who was killed in the Boston Massacre. “Crispus Attucks” he correctly replied. “Now name the White victims,” I queried. “You made your point,” he replied. (2)
Actually, Black History Month wasn’t chosen because it was the shortest month of the year. It started as Negro History Week in 1926 thanks to the efforts of historian Carter G. Woodson and the members of the Association for the Study of Negro Life. The second week of February was chosen because the birthdays of both Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglas fall in that week. Of the Negro History Week, Professor Woodson said
“It is not so much a Negro History Week as it is a History Week. We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in History. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hatred and religious prejudice.”
Woodson acknowledged the work of William Cooper Nell, perhaps the first Black American historian. I highly recommend Nell’s book, Colored Patriots of the American Re volution which is still in print. His book included a segment on the nation’s first all-black militia-the Bucks of America. This Boston based unit was led by Colonel George Middleton, who may have been the first Black military officer in U.S. History. John Hancock, and his son John George Washington, Hancock, who may have been the Buck’s mascot, presented a flag to Colonel Middleton to honor the militia unit. The original flag is on display at the National Museum of Black History in D.C. Nell helped bring the name of Crispus Attucks, one of the victims of the Boston Massacre into national prominence.
Negro History Week was observed by schools and organizations. Mayors of some cities would pass resolutions observing Negro History Week. In 1976, President Gerald Ford was the first president to declare February Black History Month with these remarks:
“Seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of Black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.”
Every president since then has issued proclamations. On January 31, Trump issued this:
Today, I am very honored to recognize February 2025 as National Black History Month.
Every year, National Black History Month is an occasion to celebrate the contributions of so many black American patriots who have indelibly shaped our Nation’s history.
Throughout our history, black Americans have been among our country’s most consequential leaders, shaping the cultural and political destiny of our Nation in profound ways. American heroes such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Thomas Sowell, Justice Clarence Thomas, and countless others represent what is best in America and her citizens. Their achievements, which have monumentally advanced the tradition of equality under the law in our great country, continue to serve as an inspiration for all Americans. We will also never forget the achievements of American greats like Tiger Woods, who have pushed the boundaries of excellence in their respective fields, paving the way for others to follow.
This National Black History Month, as America prepares to enter a historic Golden Age, I want to extend my tremendous gratitude to black Americans for all they have done to bring us to this moment, and for the many future contributions they will make as we advance into a future of limitless possibility under my Administration.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim February 2025 as National Black History Month. I call upon public officials, educators, librarians, and all the people of the United States to observe this month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
thirty-first day of January, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-ninth
I have mixed thoughts on Black History Month. On one hand, I think it is important for all Americans to learn of the incredible contributions made by many Black Americans from the Battle of Lexington to the Civil War, World War One and Two to the Deserts of the Middle East, Black Americans fought and died for our nation. Their ranks also include educators, explorers, inventors, architects, political leaders athletes, artists, clergy, doctors, poets, writers, jurist and every other profession and trade. However, the Left has hijack Black History Month by promoting race hatred and division. Leftists give us a sanitized version of the likes of WEB DuBois and Paul Roberson-both communists- while having disdain and contempt for Christians Booker T. Washington, and George Washington Carver. And they ignore people like George and Philippa Schuyler, Julia Brown, Dr. Mildred Jefferson, and Clarence Thomas just to mention a few. (They especially hate Justice Thomas.)
Many prominent Black Americans including Morgan Freeman, Stacey Dash, and Vince Ellison have denounced Black History Month. In an interview on 60 Minutes with Mike Wallace, Freeman said that “Black History is American History” and Black History should not be “relegated to one month.
https://youtu.be/-L5mYyvf2UE?si=X0ADGWMffeLWC8BC
In a 2016 interview on Fox and Friends, Dash said:
“We have to make up our minds. Either we want to have segregation or integration, and if we don’t want segregation, then we have to get rid of channels like BET and the BET Awards and the Image Awards, where you’re only awarded if you’re black,” she continued. “If it were the other way around, we’d be up in arms. It’s a double standard. There shouldn’t be a black history month. We’re Americans, period.”
https://youtu.be/FAppNlNSnXk?si=plIzKs-Nb338DdLh
Vince Ellison, in a recent podcast, said that he “feels sorry for White folks” during Black History Month, that it is a “waste of time…A bunch of lies… Black people are oppressed…White people are low down and America is bad…”
https://youtu.be/P1TNwhkwcyE?si=2WExO_bJD3CgTNk3
While it may be a while before we as a nation can jettison identity politics, and the inordinate influence that the Cultural Marxist, Death Cultists and Self-Loathing Whites have, we can celebrate and honor the incredible accomplishments of Black Americans year-round.
Here is a recommended project for those of you who have children in government schools: Download this picture below and have you or your child take it to his or her history teacher.
(1) First Black U.S. Senator Rev. Hiram Revels of Mississippi,
Crispus Attucks was killed in the Boston Massacre
Garret Morgan invented the traffic light.
The 54th Massachusetts was the 1srt all Black unit that fought in the Civil War
(2) Samuel Gray, James Caldwell, Samuel Maverick, and Patrick Carr.
MAAFA 21 Black Genocide in the 21st Century
We just uploaded the powerful documentary MAAFA 21 Black Genocide in the 21 Century to our Rumble channel.
“Maafa21: Black Genocide in 21st Century America,” is a documentary film produced by Life Dynamics Inc. that reveals how eugenics and population control has systematically been used to reduce Black births. Maafa is a Swahili word which means “a terrible tragedy,” referring to the time of the middle passage during the slave trade. The “21” in the title refers to the 21st century, because, in reality, the “Maafa” has not ended. It is still being carried out today.
Movies That You Aren’t Supposed to Watch
Over the years, I have authored articles titled “Books You Aren’t Supposed to Read.” These are books that the Establishment may not have been outrighted banned but are ignored or panned by Establishment critics. I will now begin a series of articles, on an irregular basis, concerning movies that the Establishment has ignored or smothered. All of these movies are available on our Rumble channel-link below. They can also be found on YouTube. We recommend that the readers not only watch the movies, but let others know of their existence. Why not host a movie night in your home, church, civic organization, or your local library?
Not Your To Give 1982
This is a short adaptation of the free market essay Sockdolager. While the story, originally published in the January 1867 Harper’s Magazine, is historically inaccurate, it is an excellent lesson on the U.S. Constitution and the proper role of government. It begins with Congressman Davey Crockett discussing among his colleagues the reason why he voted against a bill to offer relief to a widow of a War of 1812 officer. He recounts an experience he had while on the reelection campaign trail. He stops by the farm of Horatio Bunce seeking his vote. Bunce tells Crockett that while he thinks he is well meaning, he violated his oath of office. Crockett asked him to explain. Bunce tells Crockett that he gets a newspaper from Washington which reports the votes of Congress, and that Crockett voted to give tax money for victims of a Georgetown fire. Bunce explains that the money in the U.S. Treasury was for the purpose of running the U.S. government and not to give money to fire victims. While Bunce believes in charity, he explains that it is not a power granted to Congress in the U.S. Constitution. He explains that if Congress can give money these victims, they can give it to anyone. Bunce ended with “It’s not yours to give,” Crockett used the archaic word “sockdolager (the original name for the story) to describe his response. Sockdolager is defined as a forceful blow or a conclusive argument. He realized that Bunce was right. He told Bunce that he will be back next week and if Bunce could get some of his neighbors together, he will issue an apology and pledge not to do it again. Crockett shows up at the Bunce’s and is shocked to see how many people Bunce is able to gather. Crockett tells the group that Bunce taught him a lesson and that he will not violate his oath again.
How many readers know how their members of Congress vote? For those who have no idea, please visit the Freedom Index www.thenewamericxan.org/freedomindex
A More perfect Union America Becomes A Nation 1989
Produced by Brigham Young University, the movie is a dramatization of the Constitutional Convention of 1787. While the actors are not household names, the film does an excellent job recounting the story of how our Constitution came about. The film focuses mainly on James Madison, the Father of the Constitution. He knew that George Washington’s mere presence would give the convention the legitimacy and support it needed. He referred to Washington as “the indispensable man.” Washington was initially reluctant, but not only did he attend, he was the president of the Convention. The movie focuses on the disagreements, arguments, and compromise between the delegates, but in the end, they gave us the greatest man-made document for the governing of free people the world has ever seen. The film does an excellent job depicting the distinct personalities of the delegates.
Brotherhood of the Bell 1970
This was a made for TV movie with an excellent cast including Glenn Ford, Dean Jaegar, Will Geer, Rosemary Forsythe, and William Conrad. It is the unofficial story of the Skull and Bones, the secretive and, some believe satanic organization based at Yale University. Both John Kerry and George W. Bush are members.
The first scene has Professor Andrew Patterson, played by Glenn Ford and his fellow Bell members initiating a new member-Phil Dunning played by Robert Pine at the fictional College of Saint George in San Francisco. After the initiation ceremony, Dean Jagger, who plays Chad Harmon, a financier gives Andy an assignment-his due bill.” The assignment is to convince Patterson’s friend and colleague Dr. Constance Horvathy, played by Eduard Franz, not to take a position that the Bell wants for one of its own. If he refuses, the Bell will turn over a list of names of anti-communists from his country of origin leading to arrests and certain death. Horvathy, feeling betrayed by his friend, commits suicide. Patterson, full of grief and remorse, is determined to expose the Bell. He goes to the media and tells his story of this secretive organization. Members of the media interview Harmon who dismisses and ridicules the accusations of the Bell’s power and influence. Shortly after the interview, Patterson is informed that his department at the university has been defunded, and he is out of a job.
Patterson goes to his influential father-in-law Harry Masters, played by Maurice Evans, who offers to help. He arranged a meeting with what Patterson thinks is an FBI agent but is actually a Bell member. The agent asks Patterson for the list of names that would have been used to blackmail Horvathy. He gladly turns them over, giving the only hard evidence he had against the Bell. He realizes his father-in-law is gaslighting him after Masters denies to his daughter and Paterson’s wife. Played by Rosemary Forsyth that he ever set up any meeting with the F.B.I. Patterson’s father, played by Will Geer, a successful contractor, learns that the IRS has found some fraudulent returns. He dies from a heart attack after confronting Masters. Patterson’s wife ends up leaving him. Out of desperation, he contacts Bart Harris, a bombastic T.V. talk show host played by William Conrad. Conrad humiliates and ridicules Patterson on the show. Patterson assaults Bart on air and is arrested.
All looks hopeless until his former boss bails him out and tells Patterson that he believes his story. He encourages Patterson to reach out to the young initiate who agrees to help him expose the Bell. While the movie doesn’t go into the ideology of the Brotherhood of the Bell, it demonstrates how ruthless and powerful it is.
Tomorrow’s Children 1934
This movie was an expose of eugenics and forced sterilization. The movie was banned in a number of states. Eugenics and forced sterilization, practiced in 31 states and Washington, D.C, were policies of the so-called American Progressives. Led by the likes of racist Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, they were eagerly implemented by the Nazis-a dirty secret that the Left has done an excellent job concealing. These two evils fell into disfavor after the world learned of the crimes of the Nazis.
The movie features the Mason family . The parents are lazy drunks. Their children with the exception of Alice, played by Diane Sinclair, who was adopted, are physically and mentally disabled. An older brother is in jail. The family members, being prime candidates for sterilization, are visited by a county official who gives them the options of sterilization or lose their welfare benefits. Alice escapes from the house to avoid the sterilization. She is soon captured and brought to the hospital to have the procedure. A sympathetic doctor, Dr. Brooks and Alice’s fiancé, unsuccessfully tries to get an injunction. Within seconds before Alice undergoing the sterilization, Father O’Brien, played by Crane Wilbur who also directs the movie, is able to prove that Alice is not part of the Mason bloodline and is saved from sterilization.
Gaslight 1940
This movie doesn’t expose a secret society or government cover-ups and wrongdoing, but this is the movie where the word gaslighting was made popular
Gaslighting is manipulating an individual or group using psychological methods into questioning their own sanity, memory, or powers of reasoning. A few examples: “The Southern border is secure.” “Inflation is under control.” “The world is a peaceful place thanks to the Biden administration’s policies.”
There is a 1944 American version , but I prefer this version that takes place in Victorian England where gaslights were in common use. The movie begins in the home of an elderly lady whose house is being ransacked by a man who was searching for valuable jewelry. He murders the lady and continues to ransack the house but never finds the jewelry. The house is vacant for a number of years until newlyweds Paul and Bella Mallen move in. Bella, played by Diana Wynyard, seems to be misplacing objects and Paul, played by Anton Walbrook tries to convince his wife that she is losing her sanity. It was Paul who was deliberately hiding the objects. He has an affair with the maid and wants to institutionalize his wife. A retired detective who investigated the original murder case in the house suspects Paul.
There are two floors upstairs that are closed off. Paul believes that the valuable jewelry may be hidden somewhere in these floors. . When entering the upstairs rooms, he turns on the gaslight, dimming the lights in the downstairs rooms. Bella observes the dimming gaslights, and Paul tells her that she is imagining it. He is eventually arrested for the murder of the elderly women.
All of the above movies are available on our Rumble channel https://rumble.com/account/content?type=all
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The Weekly Sam: Making Creative Use of YouTube By Samuel L. Blumenfeld
I recently discovered YouTube, this incredibly fascinating Web site that shows hundreds of
thousands of video clips from all over the world, produced by ordinary people. Launched in
May 2005 by two young geeks, Steven Chen and Chad Hurley, the site now pumps out over 100
million short video clips—ranging from 1 to 30 minutes or more—and takes in as many as
65,000 new ones every day. It draws more than 34 million viewers a month. I assume it must
be a favorite site with homeschoolers, since many of them have produced a great variety of
video clips. Take a look and add one of your own.
According to Forbes magazine (10/16/06), Steven Chen, born in Taiwan, studied at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Hurley was a design major at Indiana University
of Pennsylvania at Indiana, Pennsylvania. They met at Paypal, the online payment site acquired
by Ebay in 2002, and formed a partnership to launch YouTube.
They conceived of YouTube after experiencing frustration when they tried to swap, online,
video clips from a party they had attended. Their aim was to keep the site simple enough so
that amateurs could use it. They used their credit cards to finance the scheme, until the site
grew so big that they had to seek financing from venture capitalists. They were able to raise
$3.5 million from Sequoia Capital.
The great potential for profit will not come from those who submit video clips, but from
advertisers. But how do you insert advertising in YouTube? That’s where the creativity of
YouTube’s founders have come into play.
But for homeschoolers with camcorders, YouTube provides a wonderful way to reach
thousands of people—homeschoolers and others around the world at practically no cost.
That’s how Ron Paul reached thousands of potential contributors. YouTube is also a wonderful
way to take a trip around the world. Just type in the name of any city or country on the globe
and someone will have sent in a video clip about that place.
There are many video clips on Global Warming from different points of view. You can make up
your own mind. Or write in Havana, Cuba, to get a glimpse of what it’s like in the Communist
dominated city. I got a great kick watching a wonderful half-hour interview of journalist Mark
Steyn at UC Berkeley.
If you are a lover of classical music, you can watch the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra play
Holst’s spine-tingling Jupiter led by an emotional Japanese conductor, or watch exuberant
Leonard Bernstein conduct Tchaikovsky and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, or watch aging Sir
Edward Elgar conduct Pomp and Circumstance. And you can actually watch the great
performance of the legendary Jacqueline du Pre playing Elgar’s Cello Concerto with young
conductor Daniel Barenboim leading the orchestra. What an incredible treat! The musical clips
alone are a tremendous source of great entertainment. Of course, don’t expect high definition
TV from some of these old clips.
There are also many fascinating clips on religion: Christopher Hitchens in debate with Denesh
D’Souza on the existence of God; Hitchens addressing the Atheist Alliance conference; a brief
interview with 84-year-old Antony Flew, atheist convert to deism; stories of Muslims converted
to Christianity (Muslims4Jesus).
One can easily spend hours browsing among the thousands of video clips. The clips note their
running times and the number of viewers who’ve seen them, plus viewers’ comments. Anyone
can join and start sending in clips. You can start as amateurishly as you’re likely to be, and
develop better technique in future endeavors.
“Video democracy is here,” Chad Hurley says, “and falling costs of transmission and a growing
audience eager for the offbeat have empowered anyone with a laptop to create, review or alter
almost any piece of digital entertainment in competition with the big guys. Hollywood will
always bring great content,” he adds, “but amateurs can create something just as interesting—
and do it in two minutes.”
Once homeschoolers know that you are on YouTube, you’ll draw more and more viewers. So
make your videos interesting and relevant. Do a video of a homeschool convention in your
area. Or show off the sights in your home town. Or interview an author or politician. Why not
show off your favorite hobby?
YouTube is also an incomparably fascinating source of information. Take advantage of it, and
get on the high-techie road to video creativity.
(The above article was written about 15 years ago. YouTube is an excellent source of information. Camp Constitution has a channel with close to 17k subscribers, over 1,500 videos and close to two million views. We have many videos of Sam Blumenfeld. Please subscribe and share our content: https://www.youtube.com/@CampConstitution
The Problems with the 14th Amendment: A Presentation by Pastor David Whitney
President Trump’s recent executive order con concerning birthright citizenship — Executive Order — has been challenged by the Left. Pastor David Whitney gives a presentation on the original intent of the 14th as well as its questionable ratification. This presentation was conducted at our 16th annual family camp that took place in July of 2024 at the Singing Hills Christian Camp in Plainfield, NH
Pastor Whitney will be an instructor at this year’s camp which runs from July 13-18: https://campconstitution.net/camp-registration/
The Weekly Sam: AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PARENTS OF NORTH CAROLINA by Samuel L. Blumenfeld
The North Carolina State Department of Education has mandated, through state law, a program for the first three grades of North Carolina’s public schools calculated to turn your children into reading and learning failures. The instruction methods being used in these grades to teach reading and “communication skills” are based on the theories of behavioral psychology and are known as psycholinguistics. The nation’s leading proponent of psycholinguistics, Prof. Kenneth Goodman of Arizona State University, has called reading “a psycholinguistic guessing game.” This instruction method, originally known as “look-say,” “the sight method,” or the “whole-word method,” is known to cause severe reading and learning disability.
In 1929 Dr. Samuel T. Orton, in an article entitled “The ‘Sight Reading’ Method of Teaching Reading as a Source of Reading Disability,” warned the educators of America that introducing this teaching method in the schools of America would “not only prevent the acquisition of academic education by children of average capacity but may also give rise to far reaching damage to their emotional life.” The educators disregarded Dr. Orton’s warning and proceeded to introduce the “sight reading” method in our schools, with the result that our schools are now turning out millions of functionally illiterate and learning disabled young adults every year. Not only is all of this costing the taxpayer billions of dollars in instructional and remedial costs, but it is causing untold emotional damage to millions of Americans whose ability to pursue careers requiring high or merely competent literacy has been severely limited.
I have read through the reading and communication skills program mandated by the state of North Carolina and can predict that at least one-third of the children now entering kindergarten and first grade in the state’s public schools will be permanently damaged and handicapped by these methods. I am urging the parents of North Carolina to demand the teaching of intensive phonics as the sole method of teaching reading in these early grades. That is the only way to prevent your children from becoming reading and learning disabled. If the state will not respond to your demand, then I urge you to remove your children from the public schools and place them in private or church schools where intensive phonics is taught. If you cannot afford private education, but are at home, then I urge you to home-school your children, using readily available phonics materials for home tutoring. I also urge churches to create scholarship funds to help parents who cannot afford to send their children to a private school.
However, if you keep your children in the public school then I strongly advise you to keep records of your children’s progress, accounts of your conversations with teachers and principals, and records of the materials being used in the classroom to teach your children. If your children become reading and learning disabled you may want to sue the school system, the state department of education, and the legislators who voted for this program. Heretofore, the only people who have sued public schools for educational malpractice have been high school graduates who have come out of twelve years of schooling functionally illiterate.
None of these cases has been won by the plaintiffs because the courts have refused to hold the schools responsible for their own malpractice. However, by serving notice on your legislators, educators, and state bureaucrats that you intend to hold them responsible for the results produced by the instruction methods they have voted for or have used in their classrooms, the courts will be unable to deny their accountability.
If you are a parent who has put a child in a public school, kindergarten or first grade, we urge you to write to us and supply us with the following information: name, age, grade of your child; name of the school, teacher, and principal; titles of the instructional materials used in the classroom. In three years, we shall know which children have been damaged by the school’s teaching methods, and we shall institute a class-action malpractice suit against the North Carolina State Department of Education, the legislators who voted for the program, the teachers and principals who used these methods, and the publishers who produced them. Only with your cooperation will we be able to stop the abuse of your children in the public schools of North Carolina by means of faulty instructional materials developed by behavioral psychologists. Send the information requested to The Blumenfeld Education Letter, P.O. Box 39850, Phoenix, Arizona 85069.
(The above letter was written back in the early 1980s. We don’t know how many parents responded to Sam’s letter. But today the homeschool movement is flourishing. This letter is in the Sam Blumenfeld Archives. It is free to join: http://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/main.htm
The Blumenfeld Archives